PACKAGESITE spam
Baptiste Daroussin
bapt at FreeBSD.org
Sun Dec 22 14:08:15 UTC 2013
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 09:00:42AM -0500, Frank Seltzer wrote:
>
> On Sat, 21 Dec 2013, Steve Kargl wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 07:35:56PM +0100, dt71 at gmx.com wrote:
> >> I've just installed a very recent -CURRENT, and now I'm performing a
> >> big portupgrade procedure. I get the following message spammed a lot:
> >>
> >> pkg: PACKAGESITE in pkg.conf is deprecated. Please create a repository
> >> configuration file
> >
> > Yeah, I noticed that spam along with the spam that is being
> > spewed to /var/log/messaage, e.g.,
> >
> > Dec 21 10:27:28 laptop-kargl pkg-static: libwpg-0.2.2 installed
> > Dec 21 10:31:15 laptop-kargl pkg-static: libcdr-0.0.14 installed
> > Dec 21 10:32:35 laptop-kargl pkg-static: openjpeg-1.5.0_2 installed
> > Dec 21 10:38:33 laptop-kargl pkg-static: poppler-data-0.4.6 installed
> > Dec 21 10:39:48 laptop-kargl pkg-static: poppler-0.22.2 installed
> > Dec 21 10:40:32 laptop-kargl pkg-static: ilmbase-2.1.0 installed
> > Dec 21 10:44:28 laptop-kargl pkg-static: OpenEXR-2.1.0_1 installed
> > Dec 21 10:47:36 laptop-kargl pkg-static: vigra-1.9.0_4 installed
> > Dec 21 10:51:00 laptop-kargl pkg-static: lp_solve-5.5.2.0 installed
> >
> > Can you (portmgr) please mute these messages?
> >
> > --
> > Steve
>
> This received several responses.
>
> Greg Rivers said:
>
> Do you really feel that strongly about it? Having a record of changes to
> the system has always seemed like a feature to me...
>
> Baptiste Daroussin said:
>
> this has been done and activated for reason, first for lot of companies,
> it is important (PCI DSS requirement for example), secondly I receive tons
> of request to actiavte on by default while you are the first to request it
> off by default
>
> Adrian Chadd said:
>
> The point is that some people like an audit trail. The audit trail for
> some people involves remote logging of syslog messages to a log host.
> This would include when packages are installed.
>
> My thought:
>
> Then why can't the messages about installed ports have it's own log file
> rather than /var/log/messages?
>
> As for this message:
>
> pkg: PACKAGESITE in pkg.conf is deprecated. Please create a repository
> configuration file
>
> Glen Barber replied:
>
> echo 'SYSLOG: no' >> /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf
>
> And Shane Ambler:
>
> now we can turn it off which I don't think we could before.
>
> Me again:
>
> Where is this documented?
>
> /root # man pkg.conf
> No manual entry for pkg.conf
pkg.conf man pages comes with pkg itself, just bootstrap it and you will get the
manpage :)
regards,
Bapt
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